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Instead of deleting, the idea of archiving messages indefinitely became plausible. This has been helped by a clean interface to keep a tidy inbox and powerful search capabilities, so you can find and retrieve old emails at will. Gmail search is also speedy which makes it practical, even if you don’t keep your inbox at all organized. For sake of brevity, I’ll cover a few of my favorite and most useful Gmail search operators and then give you the full list below with some examples....

The Drive highlights the optional extra on Mercedes’ online store: an “Acceleration Increase” subscription service for all its EQS or EQE cars. Increasing your vehicle’s torque and maximum output costs $1,200 per year, or about one extra monthly payment; the 2022 Mercedes EQS has a base price of $103,360. Hedge-fund managers who decide they want to pay the equivalent of $100 per month for something that should come as standard—or a one-off upgrade payment—will receive a “noticeable improvement” in 0 - 60mph acceleration of 0....

Facebook went all-in on its plans for the metaverse, changing its corporate name to Meta last October. But it seems Mark Zuckerberg either didn’t know or didn’t care that the trademark was already in use. MetaX LLC, a company whose immersive installations use technologies such as augmented and virtual reality and have appeared at events including Coachella, this week announced it has launched a lawsuit against Facebook/Meta. MetaX LLC’s suit states that the company was founded in 2010, and it applied to trademark its name in 2016....

On Wednesday, Meta announced that two of its Portal video calling devices now support an app that can wirelessly connect them to PCs. The new feature may save them from total cancellation as the company attempts to pivot the products from consumers to workplaces. The ultraportable Portal Go and the premium Portal Plus now support Duet Display, an app for wirelessly connecting tablets to PCs as additional displays. Users can drag windows back and forth between a computer screen and the Portal after downloading the Duet app on both devices....

Metro: Last Light includes support for SSAA (super sampling anti-aliasing) which is a type of AA that creates the best image quality. It is “pure” full scene AA with no compromises and the reason other AA technologies exist is because SSAA is very slow. As a result most of you will play with it disabled and the results above show you why. The GeForce GTX Titan went from 72fps at 1680x1050 to just 48fps at the same resolution with SSAA enabled....

All i400 cards are rated for 24/7 operation for up to five years straight with a mean time between failure of two million hours. They can also function in environments between -25 degrees Celsius and 85 degrees Celsius, and can protect against damage from water, magnets, x-rays, impacts and shock. According to Micron, the 1.5TB card can store up to four months of video footage. The i400 series utilizes Micron’s 176-layer 3D NAND, which was introduced in late 2020....

This is an incredible savings of hundreds of dollars, and it’s a great opportunity to get everything you need to be productive at an affordable price. The deal is available for Windows and macOS. Office is an essential tool for anyone who needs to create, edit, and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The latest version of the suite incorporates several additions like improved layout, design options and new templates making it easier to create professional-looking documents....

Messaging is not only among the top activities on smartphones (if not THE top activity), messaging apps are increasingly seen as social networks. After all people use them to send each other texts, videos, photos and other content either one-on-one or as a group. Sounds familiar, right? While WhatsApp is an international phenomenon, it still isn’t as big a deal in the US. It’s also purposely light on features due to a “no ads, no games, no gimmicks” policy....

Oh, Motorola DROID 3 camera, how you tease us! The 8 megapixel camera in the D3 can shoot very sharp, clear 8 megapixel photos (or 6 megapixel widescreen photos) and record nicely rendered 1080p HD video. The focus is fast and accurate, and the interface is acceptable. That’s all great stuff. But why, oh why, are most all of the videos and photos blue tinted? The white balance is just awful on the DROID 3 and it taints what would otherwise be a A+ camera Music The DROID 3’s music player is fairly standard Android fare, as it includes good organization and a wee bit of eye candy in the form of sideways scrolling album art in landscape view....

Of course on higher-end phones you might want additional features embedded in the operating system, but on an entry-level device where you want the best performance and battery life, often it’s best to leave extras to third-party apps. As the majority of the software on the Moto E is just stock Android 4.4, you can head over to my Nexus 5 review to get a full breakdown on what the software is like....

The team even used the lander’s robotic arm to help remove dust from the solar panels and extend the mission but with seasonal changes putting more dust in the air and blocking sunlight, the future looked grim. NASA was hoping for a dust-cleaning event such as a passing whirlwind but unfortunately, it never materialized. On December 19, NASA said the lander did not respond to communications from Earth a day earlier and it is assumed that InSight may have reached its end of operations....

Nvidia’s cloud gaming service grants access to free-to-play games as well as titles you’ve already purchased from online stores like Steam and the Epic Games Store, and lets you play them across a range of devices including Chromebooks, Android and iOS handhelds and even televisions. A six-month priority membership normally sells for $49.99, and affords up to 1080p quality at 60 frames per second. Nvidia also offers a high-end tier called RTX 3080 with up to 1440p at 120 FPS and longer session lengths....

In 2012, NYC officials announced a pilot program to replace some payphones with Internet-connected touchscreen kiosks. Just eight months after launch, however, the city was forced to disable web connectivity on the units as they were attracting large crowds that would engage in all sorts of inappropriate behavior including using the kiosks to watch pornography. LinkNYC, the company that runs the kiosks, still operates them albeit without Internet connectivity. Today, they offer free Wi-Fi connectivity as well as access to maps and public service announcements as well as USB ports for charging your devices....

The Lumia 520’s battery life powered by the same battery wasn’t excellent, however my experiences with the Lumia 525 were a little better. I didn’t seem to struggle to get a good day’s usage out of the Lumia 520, however it’s unlikely you go without plugging the phone in every night. Software tweaks are likely to thank for a small improvement in stamina though gains weren’t huge. When the Snapdragon S4 SoC is being stressed out, such as when web browsing, internet sharing or playing games, it’s easy to rapidly drain the 525’s battery....

As you will remember, Nvidia announced in mid-October that it would be unlaunching the RTX 4080 12GB because it “wasn’t named right.” The company was doubtlessly reacting to the outcry over the card, which had 4GB less VRAM, 25% fewer CUDA cores, and a narrower memory bus than the RTX 4080 16GB. The RTX 4080 12GB specs made it closer to what should have been an RTX 4070, but it carried an $899 MSRP, around $400 more than the RTX 3070’s MSRP at launch....

Over on Newegg, we’re seeing no less than 17 cards and bundles on offer from companies like Asus, Gigabyte, Zotac and MSI. Pricing ranges from $249.99 to $594.98, and 13 of the 17 offerings were restricted to Newegg’s Shuffle lottery program. All are currently listed as out of stock. Best Buy only has two cards in its system, the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Eagle OC and the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC, for $349....

The OCZ ARC 100 240GB took just 95 seconds to complete the Red Orchestra 2 installation, which was just 1 second slower than the Crucial MX100 512GB. The OCZ ARC 100 240GB was again just 1 second slower than the Crucial MX100 512GB, taking 42 seconds.

Then last March we got a taste of what the Vertex 2 would be all about with the OCZ Vertex Limited Edition. This was part of a limited run and somewhat obscure deal that had OCZ producing 5,000 units of speedy solid-state drives armed with a hybrid SandForce SF-1200/1500 controller. The Vertex LE delivered performance that was comparable to the unreleased Vertex 2 Pro, which used the high-end SF-1500 controller....

Prior to the release of the Vector, OCZ relied on third-party controllers from SandForce, Marvell and Indilinx itself. With careful work on the drives’ firmware, they were still able to market their drives well against competitors, but ultimately found themselves at somewhat of a disadvantage versus behemoths Intel and Samsung. Nevertheless the wait to see what the collaboration between OCZ and Indilinx might yield was worth it once the Vector arrived....

The Geekbench 4 compute test also shows similar performance with the updates installed. Geekbench also has a slue of CPU benchmarks and each category gets its own score. As you can see the crypto and memory scores are all much the same. We see a 3% reduction for the integer and floating point scores with just a 2% reduction for the multi-core score. Okay well the applications and synthetics didn’t give us much, let’s see if the games have any scary numbers for us....